Hi Guys,

First up, i'm really looking forward to creating my first SilverStripe site. I've used a few CMSs in the past, but none of the open source CMSs are really what i'd call production quality - you can run a fan site or a club site fine on Joomla, but when it comes to a corporate site that needs to be flexible and easy to use at the same time, most of the solutions have let me down. SilverStripe seems to be the right mix or ease of use and flexibility that a professional needs!

On to my reason for posting - an installations problem.

I get the following once I try to install Silverstripe:

...Then nothing. Having a look around I see that opening "http://DOMAIN.COM/db/build?flush=1" can be of some help troubleshooting-wise, and this is the error I get:

Any ideas on where I go from here or even what I might search for in Google? (yep, I'm that lost!)

Much appreciated guys

My PHP version is 5.2.1 - You're right Andy, I'm running into other problems!

I ended up bypassing my installer problems and just uploaded a finished site from my local machine - no more problems with $environment_type.

There's obviously still a problem, I'm now presented with the follwoing error:

I'd really like to _not_ have to ask the client to move servers for their new site - anything that makes the process seem more complicated is never a good thing for a layperson. Is there a fix for this error, or am I going to have to bite the bullet and move to another host?

Yep, thanks Sean, tried ?flush=1 and even gave /db/build?flush=1 a go...

What's really strange on this server (other servers i've installed silverstripe on are fine) is that I keep getting different errors. Each time I fire up the browser I get a new error - this morning's was:

So following Andy's advice, I changed 'public' to 'protected' for $classConstructed as well, and now I get nothing - no error, silverstripe just fails to load

This happens regardless of the version if you don't have the reflection php option enabled when compiling php.

I had the issue with 2.2.3 and i found the solution here: http://logs.silverstripe.com/index.php?date=2008-02-16

On the short, check to make sure you are compiling PHP with support for reflection, either by setting the correct compilation flags or by ensuring you don't set the --disable-reflection when compiling.

Also, for other issues that don't seem to relate to user classes you might want to check if those classes are not part of php, enable them and recompile php (if you can afford to do that)..

regards.

later edit: and don't forget to restart apache before you make another attempt at installing silverstripe.